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Genoa-X: Server V-Cache Round 2
Last year we posted an article about Milan’s V-cache performance where we dived into the bandwidth and latency performance of the then-latest innovation by AMD to increase performance of its CPUs....
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Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy
Intel is a newcomer to the world of discrete graphics cards, and the company’s Xe architecture is driving its effort to establish itself alongside AMD and Nvidia. We’ve seen Xe variants serve in...
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China’s New(ish) SW26010-Pro Supercomputer at SC23
Computing power has emerged as a crucial national resource. Ever since the first general purpose computer, ENIAC, was used to calculate artillery and bomb ballistics, compute applications have...
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AMD’s CDNA 3 Compute Architecture
AMD has a long history of vying for GPU compute market share. Ever since Nvidia got first dibs with their Tesla architecture, AMD has been playing catch up. Terascale 3 moved from VLIW5 to VLIW4 to...
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Loongson 3A6000: A Star among Chinese CPUs
Computing power has emerged as a vital resource for economies around the world. China is no exception, and the country has invested heavily into domestic CPU capabilities. Loongson is at the forefront...
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Qualcomm’s Oryon LLVM Patches
In October of 2023, Qualcomm announced its newest Laptop SOC lineup called the Snapdragon X Elite (SDXE). There has been a ton of excitement around this chip since then, due to it using a custom ARM...
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Intel’s Lion Cove Architecture Preview
Intel’s P-Core’s lineage can be traced all the way back to the P6 architecture that was originally found in the Pentium Pro. From the Pentium Pro to Pentium III to Sandy Bridge to Golden Cove, Intel’s...
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Intel Details Skymont
Previously Intel’s Skymont slides were published in low resolution, and I wrote a short article on them. Now, the presentation is public with higher resolution slides and presenter audio. Because...
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Testing AMD’s Giant MI300X
Editor Note (6/26/2024): We have rephrased the acknowledgment section to make more clear that we got no direct support from AMD on this article. Our testing is fully independent, and AMD did not have...
View ArticleNVIDIA’s Enterprise
Well, I guess that this will be the first non-welcome post on this website and the topic of this piece is NVIDIA Corporation, specifically the next-gen server GPU and more broadly the NVIDIA...
View ArticleIntel’s HEDT Roadmap
Long the king of High-End Desktop (HEDT) computing, Intel’s once undisputed position has become a much more awkward one since the arrival of a resurgent AMD and its Threadripper CPUs. X299 is Dead!...
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CTR: A Review and a Warning (updated)
Update 5/2/21 1340 GMT: 1usmus himself has replied to our findings; we have included his reply and some points after the conclusion at the end of the article. Article has been edited for clarity. What...
View ArticleAMD’s Past and Future CPUs (Formal Retraction)
Editor’s Note: With the release of our Zen 4 article, I issued a formal retraction of this article. When I originally wrote this article I had a very different vision of what Chips and Cheese would...
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Lowering the BAR: AMD’s 6700 XT launch and the Importance of Disclosure
On March 3rd, 2021 AMD officially announced the 6700 XT to the world. Along with it came the usual first-party performance graphs, most of which showed it matching or even beating NVIDIA’s RTX...
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Exploring CPU Core to Core Latency and the Role that Locks Play
This article has been a LONG time coming since our article on Rocket Lake, where we talked about core to core latency for the first time here on Chips and Cheese. This is a follow up article...
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Measuring Zen 3’s Bottlenecks
Zen 3 is one of the fastest CPU cores currently on the market; that isn’t up for debate.However, even the fastest CPU cores have bottlenecks and today we are talking about the bottlenecks that Zen 3...
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The Weird and Wacky World of VIA, the 3rd player in the “Modern” x86 market
Header Image credit goes to Martijn Boer. In the world of x86 CPUs there are two major players, Intel and AMD. However, there is one (well two but that will be expanded on later) other company that...
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The Weird and Wacky World of VIA Part 2: Zhaoxin’s not quite Electric Boogaloo
In Part 1 of this piece we talked about the third x86 design house, VIA and more specifically VIA’s most recent commercially available architecture Isaiah. Today we are talking about the joint venture...
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Zhaoxin Part 3: A Sort of Anti-Climax
I’ll be blunt here, this part will seem like an anti-climax compared to Part 2 of this series but I hope to nicely wrap up this series with this as the conclusion piece of what we know about how the...
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Gracemont: Revenge of the Atom Cores
This article can be considered a part 2 to our Golden Cove article because today we are looking at the other core in Alder Lake, Gracemont. Which is in my opinion more interesting than Golden Cove...
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